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M & i banks, quick trips, things like that, one of our tools to help combat this oppresive governor. >> thank you, joe conway. i appreciate your time. you were a firefighter and of course not a part of the collective bargaining issue in the state of wisconsin but because you care for workers that is why all the firefighters and police officers are involved in this as well. assembly minority leader peter barka offered an amendment to have the assembly speaker jeff fitzgerald removed when the debate started today. the amendment failed on a party line vote as expected. barka also filed a complain...

>> given the governor's track record, do you think that he will fire public workers if they do strike? do you think he'll pull a ronald reagan? >> absolutely. i wouldn't put anything past this governor. he's a vicious person. i mean, we've seen it the way that he ram rodded this bill through the senate, the assembly. he doesn't really care about the working men and women in wisconsin. we got to protect ourselves. the economic transparency. we got to know where the money is being spent from these corporations that have given walker the free rein in wisconsin. our members shouldn't be spending m...

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The question comes up, what is an emergency? the governor could actually declare our finances in the state of wisconsin are a public emergency. will this make unions think twice before they go on strike? >> we're fighting for our lives here. the governor has violated the law in the state of wisconsin. i don't think our workers are afraid of him. if we're going out we'll go out but we'll do it in a fashion that protects our workers. we may do city by city, we may do general strikes throughout the state. maybe isolated incidents. it takes a lot of planning, a lot of coordination and all the unio...

Wall street got that. our teachers don't. they have to dig into their pocket and do it. i am very, very heart warmed tonight because i found exactly what i knew i was going to find here at maury high school. whereas the generation my mother taught in has long gone, there are still teachers who care. there is still an institution named maury high school that produces graduates year after year at a very high rate. there are still programs that help kids make decisions. you know, when i was going to school here the vietnam war was raging. there were protests here just outside the wall at maury hi...